Cuba (10 unread) Blogs
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Fidel never understood why Chavez did not get rid of ‘Bourgeois Elections’ in Venezuela
Daniel Greenfield in Front Page Magazine:
“Fidel Told Me He Did Not Understand Why Commandante Chavez had Not Finished with Bourgeois Elections”
The big scandal in Venezuela right now is the release of a recording of conversations between a Cuban intelligence officer and a Chavez media ally, discussing, among other [...]
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Where There’s Smoke: White House and IRS Employees Union Collusion Against Conservative Groups
BREAKING: "Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment" - Lois Lerner
Not so fast on that plausible deniability for Obama, especially when he met with the Treasury Department to discuss how to present the IRS story before the press and the nation.
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Blake Powers releases new book today
A shameless plug for our good friend Blake Powers and the release of his new book, A Different View: Travels with Team Easy, Iraq 2007.
Volume 2 of A Different View
Authored by C. Blake Powers
Prologue by MaryAnn Phillips
Introduction by Michael Z. Williamson
Edition: 1A view of day-to-day [...]
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Lonely Fidel
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May 20th in Cuba: An Unforgettable Day
Normando Hernandez at the George W. Bush Institution's Freedom Collection:
AN UNFORGETTABLE DAY
In his book Cuba: Early Years of Independence (1911), Rafael Ortiz writes that on May 20th, 1902 in Cuba, “The joy was general and it was legitimate; Cubans were touching their dreams … all parties held up [...]
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Babalú talks about freedom in Cuba
Tracey Eaton interviewed yours truly recently:
Babalú blog nears 10th anniversary
Babalú, touted as the world's most popular Cuban-American blog in English, marks its 10th anniversary in June.
I spoke to the blog's managing editor, Alberto de la Cruz, the other day in Miami as part of a series of interviews that [...]
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Liberal / Progressive compassion on display
Number of comments: 3
Slip of the tongue...
Jokes are a lot like wine: they often reveal the truth. In vino veritas. Yeah: In jocus veritas.
Mentalities exist. French historians came up with this insight about forty years ago. A mentality is a certain way of approaching the world -- the framework or infrastructure that [...]
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The Cubanization of Venezuela: Cuban State Security running Venezuela
Number of comments: 2More on the bombshell audio of Cuban State Security official Lt. Col. Aramis Palacios speaking with official Chavista propagandist Mario Silva, which serves to further implicate the Cuban government in the manipulation and control of the Venezuelan government.
Venezuela Opposition: Audio Suggests Cuba Meddling
Venezuela's opposition [...]
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Religious freedom in Cuba remains under attack
From the U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom Report for 2012:
In Cuba, the Communist Party, through its Office of Religious Affairs, continued to monitor and control most aspects of religious life. Although many religious groups reported reduced interference from the government in conducting services, importing religious materials, receiving donations [...]
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Cuba’s Ladies in White at Miami’s Freedom Tower
Ladies in White say they want both material and moral support
Leaders of Cuba’s dissident Ladies in White group rejected Havana’s claims they are mercenaries and said on Monday that there is nothing wrong with receiving help from abroad because the Cuban government “is trying to asphyxiate [...]
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